Last summer, during our stay-cation, we revisited a local Victorian Village/museum and one of the buildings we toured was a turn-of-the century (1900) hospital. The guide mentioned that back then, it was mainly the rich (who overpaid to compensate) and the poor who went to a doctor, the Middle Class mostly treated themselves at home.
Not much has changed. The poor in this country and the more affluent (who overpay to their insurance companies to compensate) get treated. It is what we call the "working poor" and lower Middle Class that can't afford medical care or qualify for some sort of affordable insurance and end up treating themselves, as long as possible, at home.
Not much, it seems, has changed.
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